The Torch, series of articles on varied interesting subjects
Dunedin: Coulls & Culling, 1877. Original Wrappers. pp.16, original wrappers. Bagnall 2263.
Dunedin: Coulls & Culling, 1877. Original Wrappers. pp.16, original wrappers. Bagnall 2263.
Dunedin: 1890. Original Wrappers. pp. 18. Mackay, Fenwick and Co Printers, Dunedin. c.1890. Good in original pink wrappers.
Dunedin: 1875. Soft cover. pp16, orange paper covers. Outspoken commentary on Dunedin issues, economics, matters of the church, labour, etc. NZNB2223.
Dunedin: Matthews, Baxter & Co., 1874. Original Wrappers. pp 16. Author is "first rector of the High School of Otago, and founder of the eight hours' system of labour." Good in original pink wrappers.
Dunedin: Matthews, Baxter & Co., 1874. Printed Wrappers. pp 16. Good in original printed wrappers. Introduction consists of a lengthy diatribe against both the Dunedin Society for the Investigation of Spiritualism, and despoilers of the Sabbath. NZNB2255.
Dunedin: Coulls & Culling, 1877. Original Wrappers. pp. 16. An account of travel in Otago, along with religious tracts. Good in original pink wrappers.
1896. No Binding. Hand-coloured attractive lithograph.
1895. No Binding. Coloured lithograph.
1895. No Binding. Coloured lithograph. Block X Ngatimaru survey district.
1895. No Binding. Tinted lithograph.
1895. No Binding. Coloured lithograph. Takapau survey district.
London: Macmillan, 1883. Orig. Cloth. pp. xiv, [1], 350, [6], 32 of advertisements. Contains frontispiece, maps (one folding). A relatively brief description of the author's journey to New Zealand followed by an extensive account of his climbing Mt Cook and others while here. Original red cloth stained to upper front.....
Auckland: NZ Government, 1846. No Binding. Single double-columned leaf, with two-sided printing of an address by Grey (Lieutenant Governor) to the Legislative Council in Auckland. Raises questions on the future government of the colony, its structure and the level of protection that the British Government will continue to provide. Incidentally.....
Auckland: Government printer, 1864. No Binding. No. 49, Dec 17, 1864. A proclamation by Grey offering to grant a pardon to all natives engaged in the 'present rebellion' and the return of their land.
Christchurch: Christchurch Press, 1864. Card Covers. pp 63. Large folding, coloured geological sketch map and geological section maps. Maps all very good. Maps include sections of Canterbury Plains with Rangitata, Rakaia and Waimakariri rivers. Original card covers with cloth spine. Edgewear and some staining to cover, internally good. Rare...
Timaru: Timaru Herald, 1878. Soft cover. 27 pp, folding map, minor loss top RH corner, no loss to graphics. Blue paper wrappers with some wear. The record of a trip taken on the Union Steamship Company's "Hawera" from Dunedin to Milford Sound and back in December,1877. John Hall was a......
London: Harrison and Sons, 1869. Boards. pp. 32, from the Journal of the Statistical Society, vol. 40, part 1 March 1877, p. 90-130, this work has been removed from its original blue paper wrappers, and rebound in light brown boards. NZNB 2447.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. Orig. Cloth. pp.xvi, 336. Complete with 40 plates, 1 map. Original cloth with velum title on front board. Bookplate to pastedown. Groundbreaking explorations of Fox and Franz Josef Glaciers and other climbs in various areas of the Southern Alps of New Zealand. Rare.
London: John Murray, 1863. Original Cloth/gilt. pp. [6], 659, [6]. Includes advertising. Maori war content. Original decorated cloth binding, front boards detached, lacks rear boards. Interior intact.
London: Rivingtons, 1861. Early Half Morocco. pp.108. Early half morocco, rubbed. The author pleas for colonization but with justice to the Maori. A rare work. Bagnall 2526.
1895. No Binding. Coloured lithograph.
1895. No Binding. Tinted lithograph. Showing Ngaire, Poto and Maata districts.
1895. No Binding. Tinted lithograph. Mimi Survey District.
1895. No Binding. Tinted lithograph. Hautapu district.
London: Sherwood, 1842. Sewn as Issued. pp.63, sewn as issued. Heale comanded the New Zealand company's first immigrant ship, later became a surveyor in Tauranga, Southland etc. He criticizes the New Zealand company in regards to the settler's interests.